Matthew 13:21

But he has no root in himself, so it is only for a time; then, when tribulation and persecution occur because of the word, he promptly stumbles.

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In The King James Version

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

In Context

20Then whoever has received the seed upon a rocky place, this is one who hears the word and promptly accepts it with joy.

22And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

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Cross References

Job 19:28Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”

Psalms 36:3Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.

Proverbs 12:12The desire of the impious is the fortification of what is most wicked. But the root of the just shall prosper.

Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who endure persecution for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

Matthew 10:37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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